On March 14, in the trenches outside Huai'an City, Boss Wei looked at the Jiangbei Army soldiers crouching and groping in the distance and cursed them.
Now Boss Wei is the new platoon leader, with more than 30 soldiers in charge. Originally, he was inspecting territory in Henan and had a leisurely year. But this time the prince personally went to Huai'an, and Boss Wei's platoon was also ordered to go, so Boss Wei
The shit has come to the front line.
This front line is really not a good place.
The battle outside Huai'an City lasted for more than a year. Every day, artillery shells flew over the heads of the Huben Army and Jiangbei Army, and from time to time, artillery shells crashed into Huai'an City.
The entire city has been completely abandoned.
To the north of Huai'an City, controlled by the Huben Army, the people had good luck in fortune-telling. They encountered well-disciplined soldiers, and no soldiers dared to bully the people. But to the south of Huai'an City, controlled by the Jiangbei Army, the people there were completely exploited by the Jiangbei Army.
Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses still have some discipline, but Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses are completely bandits, doing everything they can to burn, kill, and loot.
The people of Huai'an became refugees and desperately fled to Shandong in the north. After more than a year of fighting, the city of Huai'an had become an empty city. Except for the houses of large families that were used as military camps, there were no people in the other buildings.
Fortunately, the prince is benevolent. Boss Wei heard that the prince ordered the local governments in Shandong to open porridge shacks to relieve the refugees in Huai'an, so that the people in Huai'an would not starve to death in Shandong. In the future, the refugees will be organized to farm in Henan, and their income should be better than in Huai'an.
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However, Huai'an's ruin did not surprise Boss Wei. What surprised Boss Wei was the Huben Army's opponent, the Jiangbei Army.
The fact that Boss Wei couldn't react to was that the Jiangbei Army actually had the same rifle as Boss Wei. The rifles of the Jiangbei Army were loaded from the front chamber and used the same conical lead bullets as the Huben Army, and the range was also two hundred meters.
As for the sniper rifles that only veterans of the Huben Army have, the Jiangbei Army also has them. The 70,000 Huben Army and 8,000 naval artillerymen in Huai'an have about 50,000 sniper rifles, and the Jiangbei Army opposite seems to have tens of thousands.
The scope of a sniper rifle is not a high-tech thing. This equipment is less difficult to manufacture than a telescope and appeared before the 19th century. However, the accuracy of muskets before the 19th century was very poor, and the scope was meaningless.
Therefore, sights really appeared in actual combat during the American Civil War, when rifled guns had begun to be installed in the army.
In the United States in later generations, basic sights only cost tens of dollars each, which was very cheap. Basically, as long as telescopes can be produced, low-power sights can be produced.
So after Li Zhi invented the sight, the Dutch quickly learned it and taught the production method to Jiangbei Army.
Boss Wei discovered that this time, the enemy weapons on the battlefield were similar to those of the Tiger Army.
Of course, the Huben Army has many weapons that the enemy does not have. For example, the Huben Army has about 8,000 breech-loading rifles, all of which are equipped for the elite of the Selective Division. They can fire very fast.
But in trench warfare, the rate of fire cannot completely turn the tide of the battle. Trench warfare is a form of warfare in which the defender has a great advantage. Even if the elite selector divisions equipped with breech-loading rifles rush forward, they cannot withstand the attacks of Jiangbei Army soldiers.
A row of cold guns.
Fifty thousand veterans entered the Huai'an battlefield. Not only did they not change the balance of the battlefield, they even stayed in a defensive state. Jiangbei Army even launched tentative attacks from time to time.
Boss Wei saw the Jiangbei Army soldiers groping over on the battlefield and cursed: "You guys, you are all targeting me!"
Thirty-two people in a platoon stood on the small bench with their rifles raised, aiming at the Jiangbei Army soldiers who came over.
In fact, after more than a year of trench warfare, the tactical literacy of the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army has been greatly improved. These soldiers marched 300 meters away, constantly looking for bunkers on the battlefield, and walking in complex zigzags.
This way of advancing makes it difficult for the Tiger and Ben Army shooters to target them.
But the shooting skills of the veterans of the Huben Army are not vegetarian.
Li Zhi placed great emphasis on target shooting training. The veterans under Wei Boss fired two or three thousand rounds of targets in a few years. Under such training, the veterans of the Huben Army had better shooting skills than the ordinary soldiers of the People's Liberation Army in later generations. Even in the three hundred
Shooting sports targets on the rice also has a considerable hit rate.
Boss Wei spit out a mouthful of phlegm and shouted: "Fire!"
The crackling sound of gunfire sounded, and dozens of sparks burst out from the trench on Boss Wei's side.
Screams suddenly sounded from a distance, and two or three of the dozens of Jiangbei Army soldiers who groped over were hit and fell down.
The soldiers of the Jiangbei Army couldn't help but become frightened when they saw that the Huben Army's shooting skills were so sophisticated, far superior to those of the southern soldiers. The soldiers of the Jiangbei Army abandoned their wounded and wounded soldiers and fled back and forth along the way.
Boss Wei sneered: "The dog got in. Now you know what grandpa is doing, right?"
The most important thing in trench warfare is shooting accuracy. In this regard, the Huben Army is far superior to the Jiangbei Army. So when the Jiangbei Army's 160,000-strong army attacked north, they were stopped by Li Zhi's 30,000 men.
Now that Li Zhi has placed 80,000 people in Huai'an, it is impossible for Jiangbei's army to break through the defense line here.
However, the Huben Army was unable to defeat the Jiangbei Army in the trenches.
Seeing Boss Wei repelling the enemy, Old Man Han, the company commander who was fifty meters away, came over and stuffed a cigarette into Boss Wei. Boss Wei took the cigarette and held it in his mouth, and Old Man Han used the cigarette in his mouth.
The cigarette was lit for Boss Wei.
"Boss Wei, this battle is harder than we thought. The Jiangbei Army's weapons are more sophisticated than we thought."
Boss Wei nodded and said: "Company Commander, why does Jiangbei Army seem to have been bitten by a dog these days and come up to test it from time to time?"
Old Man Han took a breath and said, "Jiangbei Army is attacking!"
"Jiangbei Army has been dragging its feet in Huai'an for a year and has never attacked with full force. But in the past few days, Jiangbei Army has really started to attack. Not only did they attack our trenches under the city of Huai'an to maintain frontal pressure, but they also attacked in the east and west
They circled towards our rear and tried to cut off our food route."
"The prince had to divide his troops on both wings to stop the outflanking Jiangbei Army. Now there are trenches fifty miles east and fifty miles west of Huai'an City, and the entire trench front is more than a hundred miles long."
"Fortunately, this trench battle is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Eighty thousand of us could resist the 160,000 Jiangbei Army. However, we were unable to advance and were held back by Jiangbei's army. I heard that the prince was very unhappy.
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"The prince must be unhappy with this deadlock." Boss Wei took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Why did Jiangbei Army suddenly seem to have enlightened himself? What do you want to do?"
Old Man Han threw the cigarette butt with only one butt left outside the trench and said, "You probably want to hold back our soldiers and horses?"
"Hold us?"
"You don't know? Yesterday, the ship from Japan brought news that the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan has begun to attack Osaka. The Choshu and Satsuma clans of Japan have rushed to support us, and now the fighting in Osaka is in full swing."
Boss Wei angrily threw the cigarette in his mouth to the ground, stepped on it, and cursed: "I already knew that Japan was going to rebel!"
Old Man Han was about to light a cigarette with Boss Wei's cigarette butt. When he saw that he had put out the cigarette butt, he could not find the source of the fire.
Old Man Han looked around and didn't see anyone smoking. He couldn't help but cursed: "You idiot, the sky is falling and the prince is holding it up. Why are you so excited?"
